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Monitoring the structural and chemical properties of CNx thin films during in situ annealing in a TEM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2001

S. E. Grillo ,
N. Hellgren ,
V. Serin ,
E. Broitman ,
C. Colliex ,
L. Hultman  and
Y. Kihn
S. E. Grillo*
Affiliation:
CEMES/CNRS, 29 rue Jeanne Marvig, BP 4347, 31055 Toulouse, France
N. Hellgren
Affiliation:
Thin Film Physics Division, Department of Physics, Linköping University, 58183 Linköping, Sweden
V. Serin
Affiliation:
CEMES/CNRS, 29 rue Jeanne Marvig, BP 4347, 31055 Toulouse, France
E. Broitman
Affiliation:
Thin Film Physics Division, Department of Physics, Linköping University, 58183 Linköping, Sweden
C. Colliex
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physique des Solides (URA 002), Université de Paris-Sud, Bât. 510, 91405 Orsay, France and Laboratoire Aimé Cotton (UPR 3321), Campus d'Orsay, Bât. 505, 91405 Orsay, France
L. Hultman
Affiliation:
Thin Film Physics Division, Department of Physics, Linköping University, 58183 Linköping, Sweden
Y. Kihn
Affiliation:
CEMES/CNRS, 29 rue Jeanne Marvig, BP 4347, 31055 Toulouse, France
*
[email protected]
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Abstract

Carbon nitride films synthesised by magnetron sputtering at different substrate temperatures have been studied using electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) during annealing performed in situ in a transmission electron microscope (TEM). The proportion of sp2 hybridised carbon slightly decreases initially during heating, presumably because of the removal of defects in the structure, whilst it increases at higher temperatures when graphitisation tends to take place, as confirmed by high resolution electron microscopy (HREM). Substantial amounts of nitrogen (up to ~ 80% ) are removed following annealing at 1000 °C. A corresponding decrease in the pre-peak of the nitrogen spectra suggests that pyridine-like N is released by annealing. As this peak component decreases, a second peak, of weaker intensity, is becoming apparent in the EELS spectra when the films are heated at temperatures above approximately 700 °C. The possibility has been suggested that this corresponds to N substituted for C in a graphitic structure, with possibly also some N2 contributing to the peak.

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The European Physical Journal - Applied Physics , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , February 2001 , pp. 97 - 105
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© EDP Sciences, 2001

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